Roller cloth or apron for cigar-bunching machines



(No Model.

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No. 417,593. Patented Deo. 17, 1889.

M i y (la H eZ'IZDam, MMMM i www l r l I UNrrEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARO SMITH, GOTLIEB F. PALM, AND SAMUEL IRVINE,.OF COSHOCTON, OHIO.

ROLLER CLOTH OR APRON FOR ClGAR-BUNCHING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,593, dated December 1*?, 1889.

Application filed October 17, 1889. Serial No. 327,285. (No model.)

' United States, residing atv Coshocton, in the county of Coshocton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Roller Cloth or Apron for Oigar-Bunching Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in roller cloths or aprons for cigar-bunching machines; and it consists in certain novel features, hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a portion of our improved apro or belt with a part broken away. Fig. 2 is a detail view of one of the springs. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section.

The apron or cloth A may be of any suitable material and of any desired size. At regular intervals along the cloth we secure thereto the small transverse springs B, which may be of metal or some elastic wood or any other suitable material. The springs are preferably secured to the cloth by being quilted thereon; but they may be secured in any other desired manner, and in order that they may be sewed to the cloth, if so desired, they are provided at their ends with the openings C, as clearly shown.`

Our improved apron is used on a cigarbunching machine in the usual manner, and is intended especially for use on a pointed lnoldin shaping the bunch. Ordinarily, when the straight roller is used in a pointed mold,

the tobacco is pressed harder at the ends than at the center, so that the cigar is of inferior quality. To overcome this objection, a concave roller is employed; but when such a roller is employed the apron or belt draws or wrinkles at the center, and it is to overcome this objection that our improved apron has been devised. The springs yield to the shape 'of the roller and holdthe bunch iirmly, and

at the same time prevent the apron drawing or wrinkling.

The device is very simple and its advantages are thought to be obvious to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A belt or apron for cigar-bunching machines,'provided with a series of transverse springs, as set forth.

2. A belt or apron for cigar-bunching inachines, provided with a series of small transverse springs, the VsaidY springs being quilted to the belt at regular intervals along the same,

as set forth.

In testimony that we 'claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

MARO SMITH. GOTLIEB F. PALM. SAML. IRVINE. Witnesses:

H. D. BEACH, CHARLES 15. HUNT. 

